LOS ANGELES, May 13 (UPI) — “Silver Linings Playbook,” the family dramedy for which actress Jennifer Lawrence won an Oscar, is the top-selling DVD and No.
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'Playbook' tops DVD sales and rental charts
Sony have confirmed that they will be releasing a special range of Blu-ray discs that have been remastered to take advantage of new 4K screen technology.
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Sony to release "Optimised for 4K" Blu-ray discs
Why do so many movies destroy some of our most cherished national monuments and iconic buildings?
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Movies that destroy landmarks
Highly Recommended Anna Karenina is the latest adaptation to be filmed of Leo Tolstoy’s classic and acclaimed novel. This time around the film auteur and director bringing it all together for the big-screen is none other than the spectacularly gifted Joe Wright ( Pride and Prejudice , Atonement ), who brings with him an unusual and unique approach to the source material by turning it into …
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Anna Karenina (Blu-ray)
Skip It The Movie: There was some local interest among my friends regarding the film Playing for Keeps .
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Playing for Keeps (Blu-ray)
Recommended The Movie: In the early 80s, divorce suddenly became a big subject in the media, particularly when it involved couples with kids. Irreconcilable Differences , released in 1984, addressed not only the divorce of parents but of their daughter filing for legal divorce, or emancipation, from them as well. The movie begins with what was the biggest moment in the trailer and other …
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Irreconcilable Differences (Blu-ray)
Highly Recommended THE FILM I must confess to never having seen director Joseph Losey’s mid-career debacles (or masterpieces; depends on whose take you listen to) Modesty Blaise (1966) or Boom! (1968), but judging from what I’ve read and heard regarding those films, Losey — an expat German who fled the Nazis and made films in the U.S., the U.K., and France over a long and unusually varied …
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Don Giovanni (Blu-ray)
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. The 1941 winner of the Best Picture Oscar, How Green Was My Valley is one of John Ford’s nostalgic tributes to a foreign land and a foreign time. Narrated from a modern vantage point, but set in a Welsh mining village at the outset of the 20th Century, the …
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How Green Was My Valley (Blu-ray)
Highly Recommended THE MOVIE: Please Note: The stills used here are taken from promotional materials, not the Blu-ray edition under review. It’s rare to find a film as sincere and assured in its emotional intent as Ann Hui’s celebrated A Simple Life
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A Simple Life (Blu-ray)
James Bond’s 50th anniversary film was a phenomenal hit in the cinema, even by 007 standards – and fair enough.
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DVD review: Skyfall
